A check processing center uses exponential smoothing to forecast the number of incoming chewcks each moth. the number of checks received in june was 40 million while the forecast was 42 mil. A smoothing constabt of 0,15 is used.  a)Using exponential smoothing and given a the forecast for the month of july=41.7 million checks received b) If the check-processing center received 46 million checks in the month of July then using exponential smoothing and given a the forecast for the month of august= [__] million checks recieved

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A check processing center uses exponential smoothing to forecast the number of incoming chewcks each moth. the number of checks received in june was 40 million while the forecast was 42 mil. A smoothing constabt of 0,15 is used. 

a)Using exponential smoothing and given a the forecast for the month of july=41.7 million checks received

b) If the check-processing center received 46 million checks in the month of July then using exponential smoothing and given a the forecast for the month of august= [__] million checks recieved

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